To the old hag who almost ran into me while I was on my bike: ARE YOU FUCKING BLIND? I THOUGHT BLIND PEOPLE AREN’T SUPPOSED TO DRIVE! How was I to know that you were signaling to turn right when you were beside me? And when I waited for you outside the store, I should’ve gotten your damn licence plate number… I hope that someday you will understand how I felt when you almost killed me. —The Girl on a Bike
This article appears in Jul 7-13, 2011.
First off glad you didn’t get hurt, second the waiting for her wouldn’t have gone your way, girl on bike yelling or confronting older lady, guess who’s side people are going to take, right or wrong, the license plate would have be the way to go but what the police would have done, is hard to say.
Had the same thing happen awhile ago. Stupid bitch was parallel to me, and apparently ‘signalled’ that she was turning right, and ran me off the road. Fortunately it was somewhat slow speed. The worst part was she said she ‘saw me the whole time’ and ‘wondered’ why I wasn’t obeying the rules of the road. I asked her when she thought I was behind her to see her signal if she saw me the whole time. The whole thing happened over about 10-20m so I don’t know at what point she ‘saw’ me behind her. Dumb.
Guess what, if she was TURNING and you were going FORWARD in a TURNING lane. Go fuck yourself, she was in the right.
You may have been in her blind spot?
You know what some people just aren’t very observant … which is sad.
cheer up sweet cheeks, summer and fall will be over in a couple more weeks, then we can have a nice londg winter, with no fucking biking bitches.
Blind spot? Turning lane? The thing is, when a person in a car comes up from behind a cyclist and drives beside them, do they think the cyclist ‘disappears’ or something? “He was in my blind spot!!!”, yeah, right. Idiots.
http://www.thestar.com/wheels/article/1021…
Cranky did you write this post?
cranky is a boy, silly donkey^^
c’mon!
Cranky also runs his mouth without thinking. Cranky better be hot to make up for this.
well his legs are probably quite muscular, what with the riding of the bicycle http://le-grimpeur.net/blog/wp-images/boo1…
i prefer these http://davidgodden.com/wp-content/step1_in…
You need a defensive cycling course combined with the pamphlet ‘A 2500 lb car will always beat a cyclist’.
Cycle as though your life depended on it, and use the eyes in the back of your head.
Not all drivers are perfect, and not all cyclists understand the traffic laws.
not me, fawk. get off my back!
I’m a cross ‘tween the two and shaved…ha ha
ever had road rash like this? i had it so bad it was swollen for weeks, my fault tho , i was going too fast^^ http://gearjunkie.com/images/1854.jpg
Only once when I was taken down by a car…
There ain’t no rest for the wicked …
It was probably an old person. They shouldn’t be allowed behind a wheel anyway.
it hurt more than when i was hit by a car and broke my elbow. i only had to sling that for two weeks
So the woman clearly indicated she was turning right with the car’s indicator, and you failed to even take notice? Don’t blame her. Next time, open your fucking eyes….afterall, cars do turn.
Hey asshole, sometimes cars put their ‘indicator’ on when they are directly beside you (or have you chosen to ignore this fact when its been mentioned many times already?) and not all cars have indicators attached to their mirrors, which would be the only place a cyclist would be able to notice them blinking if they are right beside the fucking car. What makes it even better is when cyclist is going 30km/h and car is slowing down to about 30km/h from 50km/h (being generous here) to make a turn 15-30m away. Do the math, idiot.